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[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
Oh ok, I do appreciate your feedback...most people jump all over us and assume we are doing something wrong...just like when we had the charging issue.

I'm not at all bad mouthing the rom or anyone who works on it
[EVO 4G General] -shift-:
very true, but by now, rippley05, you know i wouldn't jump on you guys ;)
[EVO 4G General] DomSim:
so how much "draw" from the system is expected? i mean, how much battery are you actually loosing? i ask, because something will always be drawing the battery even if idle. if nothing else is running then wouldnt be expected for android system to draw very high amounts of the battery since its pretty much the ONLY thing running? i see higher numbers but my battery life is good so do not see an issue. someone correct me if im misinformed here please.
[EVO 4G General] xak944:
Okay, about the multiple wipe thing. I've never understood why it would take multiple wipes (regardless I have done multiple wipes many times during testing as recommended by many respectable XDA members) and now I have delved into the wipe script, /sbin/wipe, in RA recovery (dunno how ClockWork or others work, this is the only one I've looked at so far).

Here is the shell code for each type of wipe:

battery

mount /data > /dev/null 2>&1
rm /data/system/batterystats.bin

dalvik

mount /data > /dev/null 2>&1
rm -rf /data/dalv*

mount /cache > /dev/null 2>&1
rm -rf /cache/dalv*

if [ -e /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 ]; then
mount /sd-ext > /dev/null 2>&1
rm -rf /sd-ext/dalv*
else
echo "No ext partition found!"
fi

So, the dalvik cache wipe is actually wiping what I believe is the dalvik cache as well as the cache. There is suspiciously a "cache" section missing from this script, so not sure what that is doing.

In any case, after a "bad wipe" (an incomplete wipe that would require multiple wipes to "fix"), there should be files left over that match /data/dalv* or /cache/dalv*. However, I can't think of any reason that this script wouldn't be able to delete the files since no OS is running and would have open file handles.

So, to check and see if your wipes are complete:

Boot to recovery

Get an adb shell

Run the wipe

Type in adb: ls /data/dalv* (or the appropriate string for the type of wipe you did)

If it listed files, then your wipe did not succeed and there is a problem!

If it did not list any files (and said ls: /data/dalv*: No such file or directory), then your wipe succeeded, and doing additional wipes won't do anything (but won't hurt anything either)

This is all for informational purposes in the hopes to discourage more misinformation getting spread. There could still be a bug in the way wipes are done and multiples might be required, but my testing with this method show that all wipes are complete with RA-Recovery on my device.
[EVO 4G General] jorgeszabo:
Ok I just noticed something here. I've had this issue as well but I had been able to avoid it for the last couple of days. In one of the tests I did I set my phone to load a governor from setcpu on boot (I believe it was conservative). As soon as I rebooted my phone, android system kept a partial wake lock and the phone showed that it was running for the entire up time, which was an hour plus. I then uninstalled setcpu and rebooted my phone again... this time, no partial wake.

If any of you guys are running setcpu, it may be worth a shot to try this. I'm not saying that this is the solution to the problem, but in my case it helped.
[EVO 4G General] -shift-:
which version of setcpu?
[EVO 4G General] jorgeszabo:
I believe it was 2.0.4? It's the one currently available in the market.
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
I'm not using setcpu at all, not even installed. I have never had luck with using it on CM.

It's strange as hell, I've wiped and wiped and wiped...but it still creeps back in lol
[EVO 4G General] -shift-:
try 2.0.3. i've heard some evos have issues with the latest setcpu. 2.0.3 should be in the setcpu xda thread. just google it.
[EVO 4G General] jorgeszabo:
I figured that this was not directly related to setcpu but if anyone has this issue and has setcpu, maybe you could give it a test and see if it works.

Another thing that may be worth a shot is inspecting the cpu usage with an app like system panel that shows you a history for each app. If you see an app with constant cpu use, try clearing the data, uninstalling and rebooting.
[EVO 4G General] jorgeszabo:
Thanks, I'll try that version later on today or tomorrow to see if it works.
[EVO 4G General] azfxstb:
You sir are 100% WRONG...:eek::eek: NOT FIXED, please move on nothing to see here...and your sorta right about the Devs..most enjoy being "THE MAN" though so.....
[EVO 4G General] azfxstb:
Go back to any CM6.1 .34 rom and the problem is gone along with the WIFI sleep issue..anyone seeing a pattern..just sayin
[EVO 4G General] azfxstb:
No setcpu here haven't ran it at all since before .34 kernel
[EVO 4G General] oddlou:
For those with the wakelock bug, are you syncing google reader, by chance? I recently installed newsrob and google reader and was having pretty massive drain. I stopped the automatic syncing of google reader and set newsrob to manual and my drain issues have gone away. Perhaps it's a problem with background google syncing?
[EVO 4G General] azfxstb:
Nope never have added that, only the standard, Contacts/Gmail/Picasa/Cal for google.

What sucks is if it isnt happening I get GREAT battery life.
[EVO 4G General] xak944:
I, too, thought the issue was related to syncing, but eventually I was able to reproduce the issue on a fresh install with no Google account set up...

This is exactly my experience too... but unfortunately the problem is present at least 80-90% of the time, so the overall result is terrible battery life (not even a full day with 3500mAh Seidio). :(
[EVO 4G General] xak944:
OKAY, so I've figured out (on my own) how to strace system_server. Turns out Android's utilities top and ps do not work like the Linux systems I'm used to (CentOS and Ubuntu) in that they are reluctant to show child processes, and there are multiple system_server processes running. I was attaching strace to the wrong system_server process, i.e. not the one consuming CPU.

However, I've run into a snag before I can get to the bottom of the issue: Once an strace has been running for a minute or two, the devices's UI (touch, buttons, etc.) locks up and logcat starts spitting out these messages once per second until the system is rebooted or I issue a 'killall system_server':

...
W/SharedBufferStack( 3464): waitForCondition(DequeueCondition) timed out (identity=4, status=0). CPU may be pegged. trying again.
W/SharedBufferStack( 3464): waitForCondition(DequeueCondition) timed out (identity=4, status=0). CPU may be pegged. trying again.
W/SharedBufferStack( 3464): waitForCondition(DequeueCondition) timed out (identity=4, status=0). CPU may be pegged. trying again.
... repeat every second ...

In my brief searching so far, I haven't found anyone mention this specific error with regard to using strace to debug Android apps. Any ideas?
[EVO 4G General] OgremustCrush:
Personally I haven't experienced the android system wake lock bug. However, it does somewhat crack me up how annoyed people are over it, when CM6 had a bluetooth wake lock bug for 4 months or so that hardly anyone even noticed. Since I used a2dp headphones and have a handsfree system in my car, I never turn off bluetooth, and thus for 4 months my phone pretty much never slept. Battery life sucked, but it really wasn't THAT bad...
[EVO 4G General] IMiLL102911:
Can someone explain what the stable shot option does in the camera?
[EVO 4G General] Negrito:
Exactly what it says. You pick the time frame that the camera(phone) have to be stable(not moving) and the app then waits for the elapsed time to go by while the camera is stable before it will take the shot.

Imo, if you set your iso to deblur its the same thing....

Sent expeditiously from my gingerbreaded CyanogenModded Evo like device....
[EVO 4G General] drmacinyasha:
Sadly, no. Only Swype and the Gingerbread keyboard will keep their sizes.

Son of a gun... That worked! Thanks!
[EVO 4G General] p-slim:
I didn't know there were other keyboards out there :)
[EVO 4G General] paranoid android85:
new gapps out 12/11/10 http://goo-inside.me/google-apps/
[EVO 4G General] hustle24:
Do we just flash it? Or...?

Also what is the difference between hdpi and mdpi?

Thanks for answering my noob questions.
[EVO 4G General] drmacinyasha:
It's a little update pb made on the IRC channel. I wouldn't consider it 100% official, but yeah, if I remember right, it has a Market update (not to the latest, but 2.12).

You can flash it if you want, but if you've updated your Market, there's no need. HDPI is for high-res screens, MDPI for low-res. The CM Wiki article linked on the page explains a bit better. :)
[EVO 4G General] hustle24:
Thanks for the response. =]
[EVO 4G General] kessomatt:
I am using the HTC IME mod(black) and it keeps the original size.
[EVO 4G General] PorscheGuy:
Actually I believe it adds the new Gmail update.
[EVO 4G General] BigRick10:
Everyone go look at the 4G pool thread!!!

Edit: Posted from Shinzul
[EVO 4G General] onefreeman:
that looks awesome!! can't wait for it to come :D

btw does anyone here know any difference in the new nightly?
[EVO 4G General] azfxstb:
“@cmsrc: vendor_cyanogen/froyo - Steve Kondik * 4982cd - cm: Bump versions to 6.2.0-RC0 for next iteration.... http://bit.ly/hn8Ufp”

Hmmm:eek:
[EVO 4G General] BigRick10:
And it looks like they finally added Vibrant support. Time to tell some friends lol
[EVO 4G General] drmacinyasha:
Asked pb, and the official list of changes is now up on http://goo-inside.me/google-apps/ in the footer. ;)
[EVO 4G General] knives of ice:
i have alot of screen tearing. i got my evo on the first day and its ver2 hardware i know its one of the original type screens.

can anyone direct me to the tool to change screen settings to help with tearing a recommend a setting to fix this please? i can't seem to find that tool/app anywhere
[EVO 4G General] onefreeman:
what is vibrant support?
[EVO 4G General] PorscheGuy:
The Samsung Vibrant, a Galaxy S phone.
[EVO 4G General] azfxstb:
Well for s&g I tried the newest nightly 199 on a FRESH install after a 5-6 time format not just wipe nothing but gapps and LP..went to use the phone this morning and the screen wouldn't respond to any touches after I launched the app drawer ....just curious what launcher everyone is having that is seeing the wakelock issues ?
[EVO 4G General] Negrito:
Launcher Pro Plus.

Sent expeditiously from my gingerbreaded CyanogenModded Evo like device....
[EVO 4G General] wase4711:
using ADW, and its trouble free...
[EVO 4G General] twiz0r:
I'm running LPP and am having wakelock
[EVO 4G General] cornelious2:
LPP wakelock..... Seeing a trend? Did this start when the 3d drawer fix was implemented?
[EVO 4G General] twiz0r:
I was having wakelock before 3d drawer fix
[EVO 4G General] timothydoanpham:
i'm not to sure about this wakelock being related to LPP mostly because i have LPP and it doesn't happen to me. ergo, it doesn't happen to at all. >_> LOL but really i don't seem to be having a wakelock issue that can't be fixed with a simple reboot, however, my wakelock issue happens about once every few weeks so it doesn't seem to bother me as much. assuming of course that by wakelock everyone is talking about how android system is using the most resources. for me it's cell standby, and my battery only last about 6-8 hours a day through moderate use.

i am using bc blend rc2 though with setcpu running on smartass. so who knows.
[EVO 4G General] slacker76:
I read in the Cyanogen forums that a reboot after charging will stop the wake lock issues. It said something about android system continuously reading the sd card while charging and not stopping until you reboot. Seems to have worked for me.
[EVO 4G General] twiz0r:
I had to reboot this morning after I charged my phone and I'm still having wakelock
[EVO 4G General] xlGmanlx:
check in spare parts to see what is causing partial wake from rebooting. I always recommend wiping your caches and rebooting. if you find that program that is causing wake lock, i would uninstall it as well. Maybe something got borked when you installed it?
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
I did notice that my wake locks do happen mostly after I pull it off my charger... but I wanna say it isn't the only thing that seems to have caused it.

It happened at work as well, but I can't remember if I put the phone on my car charger that day or not so I can't be sure. I do know that it does sometimes happen when I unplug it in the mornings, a reboot usually fixes it.

Also using LPP but I don't use the 3d drawer or anything.
[EVO 4G General] twiz0r:
How do I check in spare parts to investigate this a little more? Sorry for the stupid question, but thanks for your help.
[EVO 4G General] xlGmanlx:
spare parts - battery history - partial wake usage - since last reboot

Edit: Changed it to last reboot since unplugged could skew the numbers based on smaller window
[EVO 4G General] twiz0r:
It's showing system at about 55% and the next thing would be handcent at less than 10%. Does this mean that handcent is causing the wakelock?
[EVO 4G General] xlGmanlx:
depends on how long since last reboot, but potentially yes. If you have a short time since reboot the percentages are going to be inflated. also if you happened to just send a couple of quick texts that could speak to it. Also, check out the paid version of system panel in the market. you can track apps and plot their usage. Just a couple of ideas, i also changed my spare parts check to last reboot to increase your scope
[EVO 4G General] twiz0r:
My phone has been has up for just over 7 hours at this point. I have probably sent/received a total of 12-15 texts today
[EVO 4G General] xlGmanlx:
yeah, if you go to settings - about phone - battery: If your up time and awake time are close you could have so issues as well. Did you do full wipe etc when flashing ROM? What recovery etc. You might want to whack everything and start over. Also if you restored Apps from titanium sometimes those can cause kloogy installs as well
[EVO 4G General] twiz0r:
I do a full wipe 3x when flashing. I use RA recovery currently, I was using clockwork for a while. I have whacked everything and started over probably 10 or more times in the past 3 weeks and hasn't changed. I think the next time that I wipe I will install apps without titanium. Hopefully that will help. Thanks for all your input
[EVO 4G General] xak944:
You are describing the Android System wakelock/battery drain bug. It's been present since sometime after RC1 (so go back to RC1 if you want an immediate fix). Track the issues here:

http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=2570

http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=2189

Star the issues and report your findings there, maybe the devs will see it.
[EVO 4G General] timothydoanpham:
so my cell standby and time since unplugged is the same is that the wakelock issue? i thought the wakelock issue was with android system....
[EVO 4G General] xak944:
Go to: Spare Parts > Battery history > Other usage

Normally, the 'Running' percentage should be only a little higher than the 'Screen on' percentage. Anything higher (like the pic below) indicates a problem™.
[EVO 4G General] timothydoanpham:
ok so my running is 29.6% and my screen on is 10.0% that should be ok right?

edit: got rid of image in quote
[EVO 4G General] oddlou:
Not directly on point, but this is probably the best place to ask outside of starting a new thread:

Have any nightly flashers had luck with Good Mobile Messaging working on nightlies? I'm able to get it installed and it works for a few hours, but then the Good account stops syncing messages after a while. Any assistance/insight/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
[EVO 4G General] LifeInTheGrey:
Is this a nightly-specific thing? As in, have you installed it on stable versions of CM and it worked fine, but encountered this problem on the most recent nightlies?

If not, you may try starting up a separate thread in the Themes & Apps section, or in the Q&A Section.
[EVO 4G General] xak944:
Is your battery life terrible? If not, then it's "ok."
[EVO 4G General] -shift-:
i use good for enterprise. what's the issue exactly?

pm me...
[EVO 4G General] timothydoanpham:
well my battery life is only 6-8 hours a day whereas before when i was on rc1 i would get about 14-18 hours a day. however, the main difference i can see is that before i was running zen-something kernel and now i'm running bcblend rc2 kernel, simply because i heard it gained more battery life so eh.
[EVO 4G General] xak944:
You have the issue, just like everyone else.
[EVO 4G General] Negrito:
These are from today nightly 194, listened to music for my 50 minute commute then maybe sent one text... I have wakelock, but my battery drain isn't that bad. I still get through a full day... 8 hours.

Sent expeditiously from my gingerbreaded CyanogenModded Evo like device....
[EVO 4G General] azfxstb:
FYI.. been running the GB stock ported Launcher all day no wake lock issue no problems ( I HATE the new ADW). FIRST time since RC2 that I have made it through a day without the battery draining.. been off the charger all day and im still at 80% battery
[EVO 4G General] bigant262:
Sorry if this has been asked or brought up before, but where can I get the new market and the 2.3 keyboard? I seen a theme but I'd rather just get the keyboard by itself.
[EVO 4G General] wmdunn:
Here's the keyboard ... flash in recovery.
[EVO 4G General] badluckjack:
Has anyone else been having grounding issues with the touchscreen when plugged in? If I'm not plugged in, it's fine. Currently running a recent nightly.
[EVO 4G General] Negrito:
Does the bot still post a build if it fails, cause there is a new one....
[EVO 4G General] tranquilchaos:
I'm talking about all the installed apps on my sd card, not the internal storage. They are being stored in a separate partition of the sd card, right? I don't see them when looking at the sd card...so I'm assuming they are in a different partition just as when i had the G1, all the apps got stored in an ext2 partition...I am aware that ext is not used on CM6 evo.
[EVO 4G General] jtc442:
Where??
[EVO 4G General] xcopmanx2:
Wuttt... I don't see it. :confused:
[EVO 4G General] tranquilchaos:
So basically, I realized I had an issue this morning when I was trying to install more apps and it was just looping at "installing....", same w/ uninstalls...I tried to reboot the phone, and upon restart, all the apps on sd were inaccessible so to speak. When I tried to connect the phone to my mac, I realized another problem...it wouldn't prompt me to connect it as a hard drive

sooo...I wiped, reflashed, I tried everything, still the same....I ended up swapping out my 8gb sd card for a 16gb sd card. As soon as I put in the NEW sd card, I was able to start fresh again...another words, when I plugged the phone into my computer, it would prompt me to start usb connection. Right now, it just charges w/ no prompt to connect usb. I'm just sort of lost on how to resolve this issue.
[EVO 4G General] tranquilchaos:
huh?, explain.
[EVO 4G General] xcopmanx2:
Weird, did you try wiping the SD card clean with Recovery, using the sd:ext wipe? Someone else might know the true answer, but you just gotta wait. All you do is boot into recovery is power off phone, hold volume down while powering on phone. Then go to recovery, wipe and then sd:ext or whatever the option is. To highlight an option, use volume up and down. To select that option, press the power button.
[EVO 4G General] tranquilchaos:
I'd like to understand what is causing this now that it's happened 2x in one day...and before today, I had flashed a ton of the nightly's and had zero problems...but for the time being, I have a more simple question.

As far as reformatting one of these sd cards that's been modified with apps to sd on CM6, how the hell can I format it back to basically new...completely blank! I try in disk utility but it seems to be glossing over a smaller hidden section containing all the apps on sd.
[EVO 4G General] ViViDboarder:
If it fails to build there would be no build to post... that said it could successfully compile the build and post it but then that build could be broken and not execute.

Sent from my EVO 4G using the XDA App.
[EVO 4G General] Negrito:
Ugh, my fault... i stare at spreadsheets and numbers for nine hours a day at work... i saw the 12.... but it was the 1 from the 11 and 2 from 2010.... sorry guys.
[EVO 4G General] tranquilchaos:
I know how to wipe dude, haha, but thanks....I've tried wiping many times.
[EVO 4G General] nicholaaaas:
it would appear so
[EVO 4G General] nicholaaaas:
you'd probably have to take it out of the phone and use a card reader for that
[EVO 4G General] tranquilchaos:
been there, done that ;(
[EVO 4G General] nicholaaaas:
are you sure that small partition is for apps and not some kind of system partition for the sd? there has to be a way to format the whole sd
[EVO 4G General] jediguitarist:
I had the same problem earlier today when I left the USB cable plugged in when I rebooted. All of a sudden it would only charge and no prompt. I installed the HTC drivers and it's been working fine since. I've plugged and unplugged about 6-7 times transferring mp3s and photos and it hasn't happened again.
[EVO 4G General] tranquilchaos:
When I attempted to Wipe SD:ext partition, I get the following message:

Error: Run 'wipe ext' via adb!

Problem is, I've never used adb and really don't know how.

I had this exact same error when trying to restore a nand backup.
[EVO 4G General] tranquilchaos:
You mean HTC Sync? Please post a link to the drivers you're talking about.

The more I think about it man, I doubt the problem was created by leaving the usb cable in when rebooting. Pretty sure I've done that a lot and it never caused a problem. I've been flashing all the updated CM6 roms on a nightly basis. I only ran into this problem today and now it's happened 2x....I feel like I have to backtrack, maybe it's a specific app that's causing this to occur. **** THIS SUCKS!
[EVO 4G General] jediguitarist:
It's not letting me post the link, but it's the 2.0.33 from the HTC site

Yeah, the HTC sync. Then I uninstalled the Sync part of it once it started working again. The folder for the drivers are still installed, I guess.
[EVO 4G General] edtate:
I'm pretty sure this was a manual build. If it was then they were probably testing to make sure something just like this doesn't happen. We will probably see a working rom later tonight.
[EVO 4G General] bigant262:
Thanks, do you know how to get the new market? I flashed the newest GAPPS, but it wasn't in there.
[EVO 4G General] THunDA:
running 198 here and all is fine, going to flash 199 soon I'll let you know.
[EVO 4G General] beastmods:
couple threads back someone posted a zip to flash from recovery.

EDIT: sorry that was on a different post here ya go! http://www.mediafire.com/?5kb7rpp2412bbjo

Give Thanks!
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
I'm on a nightly just before rc2 and my screen gets wonky when plugged in...have to pull battery
[EVO 4G General] THunDA:
just flashed 199 and screen works for me, never had any issues with any of them and my screen.. I do a wipe every time I change roms though, just think its better that way as it eliminates that as a problem. (thank god for titanium backup)
[EVO 4G General] drtdiver83:
ive noticed with mine plugged in the screen isn't really all that responsive. other than that everything is good and runs smooth.
[EVO 4G General] lowspeed:
Anything changes in 200 ? (Nice!)